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Tagged with: gentrification

Obama’s supply-side toolkit attacks local housing policy

On September 27th the Obama administration released a "Housing Development Toolkit" promoting a deregulation program for market rate housing development at the local level....

Landlord tries to justify evicting 100-year-old

Iris Canada’s story has been in the media a lot in the past six months, ever since that afternoon in March when her niece,...

We beat a bad housing bill, so let’s forget the blame game

There was a provocative screed in Beyond Chron this past Thursday by its editor Randy Shaw about Governor Brown’s failed “By Right Development” bill...

Mamas fight for justice for their African sons

  Sala Haquiyah Chandler and other mothers stood outside the SF courthouse recently, waiting while the alleged murderer of her son and three other young...

Is SF done with Pocha Nostra? (Is Pocha Nostra done with SF?)

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO -- Logistically and philosophically, being a trans-border radical performance art troupe is not simple. The Bay Area-based Pocha Nostra troupe, led...

An open letter to Tony Bennett

Dear Mr. Bennett: Congratulations on your being honored by the city of San Francisco.  I’m sure hundreds will attend the ceremony on Nob Hill on...

Party Radar: Can this colorful crew save the Stud?

PARTY RADAR In a world where gentrification and skyrocketing rents are forcing vital arts and nightlife spaces into exile, can a scrappy, rag-tag group...

Board factions (mostly) work out deals for fall ballot

Everyone seems to be complaining about a lack of “collegiality” at the Board of Supes, since some of the discussions over the budget and...

A 99-year-old still faces eviction

Carved into the skin of SF's black community is a desecration, a lack of recognition of the sacred. This desecration is being levied upon...

For homeless people, normal life becomes ‘dangerous’

Editor's note: News media all over San Francisco are writing about homelessness this week. We though we could offer a very different perspective. Our...